Thorleif Brinck Lund (7 June 1880 – 30 June 1956) was a Norwegian stage and film actor of the

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era.

Early life

Thorleif Lund was born in

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to parents Hans Geelmuyden Lund and Bertella Karen Lauritza Bertelsen in 1880.Den danske film database
/ref> Thorlief Lund made his stage debut as an actor at the

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(The National Theater) in

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in 1905. He also appeared at the Centraltheatret (Central Theater) in Oslo, and then on

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theater in

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from 1908 to 1913. In 1914, Lund made his film debut in the Scandinavian-Russian Handelshus in

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where he participated in several films before he left the same year to sign a contract with

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where he spent the next three years playing in some 35 films. In September 1917, the forced deteriorating economic conditions caused by

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caused Nordisk Film to terminate their contracts with some 50 actors; including Thorleif Lund.

Later career

After several years, Lund went with his actress wife Ebba Thomsen and several other former Nordisk Film actors: Philip Bech, Alma Hinding and

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on a theater tour on

and

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, but without great success. In 1923 he appeared in his last film ''Republikanere'' (''Republicans''), directed by

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for Astra Film. After the retiring from the film industry, he worked as a businessman, particularly as an advertising manager at

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. In his last years he worked as a factory director for a company that manufactured gloves.Thorlief Lund at the Danish Film Institute
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Personal life

Thorleif Lund was married twice, first on 7 October 1908 to Janne Lange Kielland Holm which ended in divorce. His second marriage was to Danish actress Ebba Thomsen in 1915. Lund died on 30 June 1956 at age 76 and is buried at

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Cemetery in

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, Denmark.

Selected filmography

* '' The End of the World'' (1916) * '' The Secret of the Desert'' (1918)

References

External links

*
Den danske film databaseDanish Film Institute
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Thorlief 1880 births 1956 deaths Norwegian male stage actors Norwegian male film actors Norwegian male silent film actors 20th-century Norwegian male actors Male actors from Stavanger